Translated from Anton Chekhov's short plays and adapted by Vera Gottlieb, this collection consists of four one-act plays. Each contains a wide spectrum of dramatic possibilities, and presented together the plays serve to form a coherent programme.
This volume focuses on "Saved and the Pope's Wedding", a radio production of "The Fool" (1990), "The Company of Men" (1993) and the television plays "Olly's Prison" (1992) and "Tuesday" (1993) and provides background information for both the student and the general reader.
This work comprises an anthology of plays written for the British group - Siren Theatre Company - a lesbian theatre collective founded in 1979 by women from the... Læs mere
The emergence in Russia of the chauvinist antisemitic movement, Pamyat, in 1987 has startled Western society even as it has stirred deep fears and anxiety among Jews and... Læs mere
First Published in 1997. This text traces Nunez's research with Grotowski and Strasberg, at the Old Vic in London and in Nahuatlan and Tibetan... Læs mere
This work brings together the Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian approaches in theatre by relating to the Palestinian theme as it appears in the Jewish-Israeli theatre and by attempting to characterize the Palestinian theatre in general.
This work is a collection of 21 articles by authors from eight different countries. The contributors discuss Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) against the literary and theatrical background, both of his own lifetime and in the context of the current multicultural, polycentric era.
This is an account of a search for ways to teach dance to the profoundly deaf in a variety of schools and settings. The author describes the methods and games... Læs mere
A collection of the verbal language of dance practitioners and researchers. This work presents people in dance, what they do, their movement, their sound and the space in which they work - from the standpoint of performers, choreographers, audiences and teachers.
The arrival of Aleksandr Vampilov's "Farewell in June" (1964) marked the debut of one of the most promising young playwrights to appear in Soviet Russia during the post-war years. This text is a collection of his major plays.
There were theatres in many Soviet concentration camps. What were they like? Can we regard them as an artistic phenomenon? Do they constitute a distinct unity? This... Læs mere
This handbook for advanced students explains the various applications to music of methods derived from linguistics and semiotics. The book is aimed at musicians... Læs mere